A Poisonous Cocktail
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 10 November 2012
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Burma: Jonathan Head goes to Rakhine state in Burma where bitter unrest has resulted in more than a hundred deaths and a hundred thousand displaced. Libya: Kevin Connolly visits a war graves cemetery and considers stories of loss and love, grief and anger. Japan: Rupert Wingfield-Hayes takes a boat to the islands at the centre of a bitter argument in the South China Sea. USA: As the dust settles after the election Jonny Dymond's in Indiana looking on as the real business of America gets done. and Mexico: Will Grant's in Oaxaca state where they believe in bidding farewell to the dead in a festive rather than a funereal atmosphere.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to a download from the BBC, this is from our own correspondent. |
| 0:04.6 | You can hear the version of the program we make for the BBC World Service by visiting our site |
| 0:08.9 | at BBC online. |
| 0:10.8 | But here's the latest edition broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and introduced by Kate Adi. |
| 0:16.0 | Today's Stories of Love and Loss, Anger and Grief in a cemetery overlooking the Bay of Tripoli. |
| 0:22.0 | A poisonous cocktail of Tripoli. A poisonous |
| 0:23.7 | cocktail of resentment casts a shadow over Burma's new democracy. We go fishing |
| 0:29.0 | close to the islands at the center of a furious argument between Japan and China and see the real |
| 0:35.2 | business of America being done in a tired looking ballroom in Indiana. More |
| 0:41.8 | than three-quarters of the population of this country are expected to observe the two minute silence at 11 o'clock tomorrow morning. |
| 0:48.0 | It's a tradition which began after the signing of the armistice at 11 a.m. on November the 11th, |
| 0:54.3 | 1918 which brought the First World War to a close. The event will also be marked |
| 0:59.8 | at remembrance state church services and at many of the war dead cemeteries run by the |
| 1:04.2 | Commonwealth War Graves Commission in countries around the world. Kevin Connolly's |
| 1:09.1 | been to visit one of them in the Libyan capital Tripoli. |
| 1:12.9 | They came to the shores of the Mediterranean with rifle and pack rather than bucket and |
| 1:17.3 | spade, and now they lie in silent rows, not far from where the turquoise water nudges lazily against the beaches of Tripoli Bay. |
| 1:26.0 | This is a time of remembrance, but to walk through the headstones of Portland stone in this war cemetery is to remember how much we have forgotten |
| 1:35.4 | too. |
| 1:36.8 | One of the inscription says simply, into the mosaic of victory, I lay this precious peace. Some other or father or wife far from the battlefield |
| 1:46.1 | where their soldier died, sensed that the loss which filled their thoughts and |
| 1:50.6 | broke their hearts was an unfathomably small part of the largest of all human dramas. |
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